Characterized are changes in the content of the activities of the state statistical bodies, changes in the methodology of statistical surveying and the effects of these changes on the quality of the statistical information given by the statistical bodies, namely * the adaptation of price...

This paper suggests a methodology for an analysis of the distribution of power in multiparty parliamentary bodies elected on the basis of a proportional electoral system. Concepts of the political spectrum and the power spectrum (based on game theoretical concepts of power indices) on a single...

The paper analyses of some important features of the past and present macroeconomic situations in the Czech Republic. Between 1948 and 1989 the former Czechoslovakia lost its pre-war position among the advanced industrialized countries. The radical economic reform (prepared in 1990 and initiated...

Part of the legacy of a command economy are highly concentrated market structures. The purpose of the study is to analyze the extent to which market structures of manufacturing industries in the Czech economy adjusted during the first three years of transition and to draw conclusions about the...

This paper is focused on the behavior of different groups of economic agents participating in large scale privatization. Since large-scale privatization has many interactions with other privatization programs, we will also briefly describe restitutions, small scale privatization and property...

In many developed countries, health care is now the cause of difficult economic, managerial and even political problems. In the Czech Republic, where fundamental changes in the health care system were absolutely necessary and long overdue, this situation was further complicated by the process of...

Marked changes have taken place in the volume and structure of incomes, expenditures and savings of the Czech household sector during the four year course of the economic transformation. The most significant influencing factor has been the process of inflation as a consequence of price...

This study is a contribution to the discussion about restructuring the manufacturing industry of the Czech Republic during the period 1991-93. The analysis is based on a unique data set created from a survey carried out in February 1994. The central objective of the study is to test whether the...

The paper discusses the development of non-wage benefits in the Czech economy during the transition from a planned to a market economy. It shows a slowly increasing importance of such instruments of attracting best employees as social insurance or subsidized goods and services. Following an...

This study develops a dynamic model of bidding behavior to investigate the Czech voucher privatization process, which took place in two waves of bidding rounds, the first in 1992 and the second in 1994. It examines the voucher mechanism from the standpoint of investors and the pricing and...